What Is to Be Done?

Synopsis

No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of uncle tom's cabin, can compete with what is to be done? In its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For chernyshevsky's novel, far more than marx's capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the russian revolution. ―the southern reviewalmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, nikolai chernyshevsky's novel, what is to be done? , had a profound impact on the course of russian literature and politics.